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15 September Farmers as Innovators: First Rural History Roundtable for 2009-10 For information on rural history events at the University of Guelph in Fall 2009, please watch this site or contact Douglas McCalla (dmccalla_at_uoguelph_dot_ca) to request details. Rural History Roundtables, 2009 The 2008-2009 series of the Rural History Roundtable concluded in April, but scholars from the University of Guelph were active at summer meetings of Arpents, the Agricultural History Society, the Canadian Historical Association and other conferences. 22 April Dr. Frans Schryer from the University of Guelph's Department of Sociology and Anthropology gave a talk entitled “The history of post-war (1 & 2) immigrants from the Netherlands in Ontario.” . 15 April Patricia Bowley presented her work on “Soy Beans in Ontario. Scientific Beginnings in the 1920s”. Pat is a PhD Candidate in the History Department, and she will give another version of this paper at the annual conference of the Agricultural History Society in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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16 March Christi Garneau-Scott presented “Hunting Traditions and Human-Animal Interactions: The Triangular Relationship
4 March 11 February As an introduction to her latest research, Dr. Catharine Wilson presented her multi-media "Images of Rural Masculinity: Plowing and Plowing Matches in Ontario."
Rural History Roundtables, 2003-2008 29 April Our last speaker for the 2007-2008 academic year was Dr. Marvin McInnis, Department of Economics, Queen’s University, who spoke on his current research, a highly revisionist account of agriculture in Canada during and after the First World War. Dr. McInnis is one of Canada’s leading historians of rural economies, and the principal authority on representations of agriculture in historical census data. 4 April Dr. Royden Loewen previewed a chapter in his coauthored book on Mennonites in North America. This talk was on everyday Mennonite religiousness, and charged historians to write religious cosmology into their narratives. That it attracted a large group for exam week shows how Dr. Loewen's presence as Visiting Professor at the University of Guelph has been appreciated. 11 February Dr. Ruth Sandwell, from OISE/UT, spoke about her book project, a general rural history of Canada, 1870-1950, for the University of Toronto Press Themes in Canadian Social History Series.
15 February Dr. Joy Parr, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk,
University of Western Ontario, gave a talk entitled 'Unsettled: Woods, Meadows and Memory of North Atlantic Alliances at Gagetown' based on work for her book on megaprojects and rural development. 18 January Dr. Susan Nance of the Department of History at the University of Guelph presented “A Star is Born to Buck: On the Development of Rodeo Bulls in the 1990s”
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Rural History Roundtable Dr. Strom is a member of the department of history, North Dakota State University, and editor of Agricultural History. Among her publications is Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West (University of Washington, 2003).
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Rural History Roundtable With Dr. Bruce Elliott, Dr Gerber has edited Letters Across Borders: The Personal Correspondence of International Immigrants (Palgrave 2006). One of his earlier books, The Making of an American Pluralism: Buffalo, New York, 1825-1860, was the winner of the 1990 Herbert Gutman Prize for best book in American Social History.
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Rural History Roundtable Stuart Basten is completing a doctoral thesis on infant health in late-Georgian Northern England and Scotland in the historical demography program at Cambridge University. His visit to Guelph was arranged by Kris Inwood in connection with the 1891 Census Project. His talk was based on a paper on the parish registers that appeared in Local Population Studies, spring 2006. The talk thus offered an opportunity for wider reflection and exchange on basic sources for rural population history.
Rural History Roundtable Our guest will be Dr. Sterling Evans, Canada Research Chair in History at Brandon University. He will speak informally on/is interested in discussing his (and our) work on intersections between rural, agricultural, and environmental history. Dr Evans is an expert on markets, environmental change, and conservation issues in the Great Plains region (Mexico, USA, Canada). He has a book forthcoming with Texas A&M Press, Bound in Twine: Transnational History and Environmental Change in the Henequen-Wheat Complex… In preparation for the roundtable, you might find it of interest to read his “Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico, 1880-1950,” Agricultural History, 80: 1 (2006), 35-63, available online through Trellis. Dr. Evans’ visit to Guelph is organized by the University of Guelph Department of History, the Tri-University Graduate program in history, and the Canada Research Chair in Rural History. He will also be the keynote speaker at the TriUniversity History Conference on 18 November. For further information on the roundtable, please contact
Douglas McCalla (dmccalla_at_uoguelph_dot_ca)
Lecture – Rural Upper Canadians go shopping: Seeing our ancestors as modern In this year's first CRC lecture, Prof. McCalla synthesized his research on 19th century consumption patterns in Upper Canada and punctuated it with material from other rural historians at the University of Guelph. The full text of the lecture is available here.
Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and the Rural Disjuncture,
1930-1980 Royden Loewen’s outstanding histories of Mennonite migration and settlement in Canada and the United States include Family, Church, and Market (Toronto 1993), Hidden Worlds (Winnipeg, 2001); and an edited collection of the diaries of Mennonite men and women, From the Inside Out (Winnipeg, 1999). His presentation at the University of Guelph introduced Diaspora in the Countryside, the manuscript of his most recent research. This study examines the changing worlds of Mennonites in two communities in Manitoba and Kansas and their unique evolution in what has been called the rural disjuncture.
Guest Speaker – Gordon Darroch, Sociology,
York University Dr. Darroch’s lecture built on his paper in the Journal of Family History (2001)
titled “Home and Away: Patterns of Residence, Schooling, and Work Among
Children and Never Married Young Adults, Canada, 1871 and 1901.” He
stressed the unique role censuses play in finding the voices of ordinary
Canadians. Many of these people, especially children, left no other
records. He used these sources to explain the popular phenomenon of
children living away from their parents in the late nineteenth century
when “boarding out” was thought to have been on the decline. Part of
the article examines differences between rural and urban children living
away from home. Migration and Beyond – A Colloquium This event featured two lectures on migration history. Eric Richards of Flinders
University spoke about “Hugh Miller, Sismondi and Resistance to Highland
Clearances.” Bruce Elliott of Carleton University analyzed the letters
of North American Irish immigrants in his “Going Back to Sweet, Coleraine:
Masculinity, Class, and Irish Return Migration.” The colloquium was
attended by students, faculty, and staff from the departments of History,
Economics, and Geography, and it was sponsored by Scottish Studies,
the Canada Research Chair in Rural History, and the Department of History. Telling Rural Stories: A Roundtable on Rural History The objective of this discussion was to share ideas on powerful stories in rural history, ones that have the capacity to command the attention of non- specialists and to challenge stereotypical perceptions of the rural past that dominate historical understanding. A core theme was how to foster the integration of new work in rural history into larger narratives. A subsidiary aim was to represent the scope of rural history at the University of Guelph as a collective emphasis that stretches across the whole world and extends beyond the department.
The Future of Economic History Conference The core of this meeting was a group, now informally constituted as the Canadian Network for Economic History/Réseau canadien d’histoire économique, that has met every 18 months for about 40 years. The conference sought to extend discussion beyond the specific research programmes that regular participants have in process to address the institutional and especially the intellectual issues for economic history in Canada in years ahead. There were 24 presentations; as most papers were available in advance on the conference website, the focus of the meeting was on discussion. In total, 40 people registered and several others sat in; they came from 15 Canadian, 1 American, 1 Uruguayan, and 2 British universities and from the National Archives of Canada. |
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Sharon Weaver delivered a paper titled “Rural Encounters: 1970s Back to the Land, Cape Breton, NS and Denman, Hornby and
Lasqueti Islands, BC.” Sharon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History where her work focuses on the back to the land movement in Cape Breton and the Gulf Islands. Another version of this research will be presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Carleton this May. 
Dr. Claire StromThis research was undertaken, in part, thanks to funding
from the Canada Research Chairs Program.
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